Dr Konstantinos Brintakis is a research associate at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL-FORTH). He received his BSc and MSc degrees in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh, Greece), specializing in Materials Physics and Technology. In 2017, he earned his PhD with Excellence from AUTh. His doctoral thesis, completed in collaboration with the Physics Department and IESL-FORTH, investigated the growth and organization of hybrid nanocrystals, focusing on their structural, electronic, and magnetic properties.
As a member of the Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano-Processing Group (ULMNP) led by Dr Emmanuel Stratakis, he works within the Nanomaterials activity, where Dr Athanasia Kostopoulou leads the subgroup. Dr Brintakis has extensive experience fabricating nanomaterials using physicochemical approaches like LARP and hot-injection methods. He is highly skilled in characterizing the structural and morphological properties of these nanostructures using HRTEM and FESEM microscopes, including sample preparation, image acquisition, and data analysis. His research explores different morphologies and stoichiometries of Pb-based and Pb-free perovskites for energy and sensor applications, achieving results that surpass current state-of-the-art materials, as evidenced by his recent publications.In recent years, Dr Brintakis has successfully contributed to new funded perovskite-related projects, demonstrating his expertise in proposal writing and project development. Notably, the Nanomaterials activity has attracted approximately €1.5 million in funding for FORTH since 2017, including coordinating EU projects like BRIDGE (https://euproject-bridge.eu/).